Bordelon (DDR 881) - Naval Cruise Book

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U.S.S. BORDELON

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CAPTAIN T. H. HEDERMAN United States Navy Former Chief of Staff Commander Sixth Fleet c -APTAiN T. Henry Hederman, La Jolla, California, was graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy in 1923, where he was cap- tain of the baseball team and later served as coach. He has spent the greater part ot his sea duty in destroyers and commanded USS DOWNES in 194041. During World War II he commanded Destroyer Squadron 61 in Task Force 58 and led his squadron into lower Tokyo Bay one month before Japan capitulated, destroying a Japanese convoy attempting to sneak out. In 1946-47 he headed the Fleet Training Group, San Diego, and the following year was Commander Destroyer Flotilla ONE in the Pacific Fleet. Captain Hederman holds the Navy Cross and Legion of Merit with combat V. CAPTAIN R. L. CAMPBELL United States Navy Chief of Staff Commander Sixth Fleet C aptain Robert Lord Campbell, Imlay City, Michigan, graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy in 1921. following graduation he served on the INS PENNSYLVANIA, USS ROBERT SMITH, and the USS PREBLE. Later he was Aide and Flag Lieutenant on the stafl of Commander Cruiser Division THREE. In 1935 he assumed command ol the USS RAIL, later commanded the USS SE- QUOIA and the USS TRIPPE. His next sea assignment was as navigatoi ol the USS ALABAMA. He participated in the Gilbert Islands and the Marshall Islands campaigns. Afte: various assignments with Destroyei Squadrons and shore dut) he was ordered to dut) as Chiel ol Staff, Com mandei SIX I II FLEET.

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Periscope X ' p. ' U.S.S. BORDELON C Jue U.S.S. Bordelon is a 2250-ton radar picket de- stroyer, launched and commissioned at Orange, Texas, in [945. The Bordelon is named alter Stall Seine. nit William fames Bordelon, USMC, who had been post- humously awarded the Congressional Medal ol Honoi for his valorous and gallant conduct as ,1 membei ol an engineer platoon attached to the 2nd Marine Division during the Battle ol Tarawa, Gilbert Island, on Novem- bei 20, 1943. Since commissioning, the Bordelon has served in l» th the Pacific and Atlantic Meets, and has had dut) in liolh Northern European waters and the Mediterranean. I hi set vice ribbons are the American [ heater, Asiatic- Pacific, China Service, and Navy Occupation Service. The present Commanding Officer, Commander |ohn E. [ohansen, USN, is a native ol Mobile, Uabama, and assumed command on Octobei 25, 1949, relieving Com mandet Carleton R. ken, fr., USN. I he home port ol the Bordelon is Norfolk, Virginia, where many ol the families ol officers and crew reside. We feel that we are a representative cross-section ol the people ol the United States ol Vmerica, and .uc in terested in out European neighbors in the interests ol iiiicination.il good-will .mil world-wide peace. lioriii ' lini entera o. calm hmOtn of a harbor